Sweet Potato Pie

March 08, 2011 3:59 PM ET

Doreen McCallister

I had never eaten sweet potato pie, let alone made it, when a work colleague asked me to make one. The woman was insistent that I could make a good sweet potato pie. "Alright," I told her, "give me a week." One thing I learned through trial and error is that while pumpkin and sweet potato pies may look similar, they are very different. I went into the experiment thinking pumpkin pie would be my favorite of the two. Now, I'm not so sure.